Sentences with phrase «absorb the blows in»

As such you'll want to protect your expensive, but high - utility corn with the cheaper grunts, allowing them to absorb the blows in their «stead.

Not exact matches

I guess on the up side in hand - to - hand, you might fair better absorbing blows just below the head, but on the down side, you probably won't be able to react as fast as someone without a chist.

While some were still itching for a ballot box fight, others seemed resigned to absorbing unjust blows in the short term and girding for the difficult long - term task of rebuilding a societal structure that has at least partially collapsed.

A year ago, Oregon's statement win over Michigan State — absorbing some serious blows from the Spartans in the second quarter, then gunning it in the second half and winning 46 - 27 — was a sign of what was to come.

He absorbed the body blows in New York and New England and emerged with his self - confidence intact.

Don Cockell was acclaimed by sportswriters on both sides of the Atlantic for his ability to absorb hundreds of Marciano's hardest blows, and one Englishman went so far as to write that»... this was the kind of extra courage which makes you proud to belong to the human race and to have been sired by the same breed as the boy who grew up in the back streets of Battersea.»

Abe absorbed plenty of punches in his world travels, including solid blows from a kangaroo in Australia, who scored a technical K.O. when he sent Abe sailing from the ring with a well - placed flail of his tail.

While the average annual value of this contract — which sits between $ 55 and $ 65 million — is the highest for any catcher in the league, the length of the deal will help St. Louis more easily absorb that blow, should it eventually be a problem.

If everyone was in on that pact, Sunday would have been a disappointment, the stadium would have roared the team on in a way that encourages them and makes things a bit less tense for the players; afterwards we would all have absorbed the blow of that poor performance and defeat and consoled ourselves with the knowledge the season is long.

But what ever it is we're doing, my best day is found in the moments that I really absorb her, in those seconds when she is talking to me and she is saying stuff that is blowing my mind, and I look at her and think, «Holy moly that's my kid!

Shorter than the width of a human hair, the roots absorbed lichen, bacteria and algae blowing about in the sand.

A breakdown of the blow each council must individually absorb in each year was not made available.

It is somewhat dimmer as much of the light is absorbed by the surrounding nebula of material that the star has just recently blown off, and no helium is seen in their spectra.

It is somewhat dimmer as much of the light is absorbed by the surrounding nebula of material that the star has just recently blown off, and no helium seen in their spectra.

One thing I do know, nuts blow up in size by the end of the soaking period leaving no doubt that they have absorbed the salt soaking medium:

Cartilage in the joints, called articular cartilage, acts as a shock absorber to cushion the blows of daily wear and tear.

In the fictional African nation of Wakanda, beads made of «vibranium» heal bullet wounds, and a bulletproof suit absorbs and stores the energy of hostile blows.

The independent suspension design remains the same (MacPherson struts up front, multi-link out back), but Honda engineers worked hard to isolate passengers from road noise by using very stiff mounting points in the rear and «blow - off» valves on all shock absorbers that reduce harshness when a wheel hits a severe jolt, such as a pothole.

The Touareg also rides down the road in a confident manner, not letting impacts from bumps upset it, but instead absorbing blows to provide a comfy enough ride.

The trilogy carries authority and authenticity as it depicts the personal experiences of Lewis, including his early years in Troy, Alabama, his experiences organizing sit - ins to protest segregation, his participation in the freedom rides and the March on Washington and Bloody Sunday, when a 25 - year - old Lewis inhaled tear gas and absorbed the blows of billy - clubs.

This class felt great for taking on multiple foes and juggling them in the air with a flurry of blows or pulling in L2 to switch to a defensive stance and absorbing all incoming damage with a perfectly timed dodge.

You can play either as the goblin Styx, who can travel into small places, dissolve into a stealth mode in order to assassinate enemies and can participate in ranged combat or you can play as the orc Arkail, who is your tank, meant to stand on the front lines, absorb damage and deal heavy blows.

The almost manic sense of exhilaration expressed in the mash - up — fans used to blow air currents across a work's surface, tires, coke bottles, taxidermy, a bed, or any of the innumerable curiosities Rauschenberg absorbed into the Combines — amazingly retains much of its punch, even after so many years and so much reproduction in art history texts.

There are a few clues that maybe CO2 doesn't idle the centuries away aloft, and that (I know you'll be shocked) the Climate Commission (and IPCC) have overstated things: If emissions are absorbed by the global system in a matter of months, it rather blows the idea that we have to act decades ahead to stop the catastrophe.

It's one thing to destroy coal in favor of more expensive energy in an advanced economy where consumers have more disposable income to absorb the blow of rising energy costs, but to deny developing countries access to electricity is an absurd form of «liberalism.»

The way this test works is that, when the breath air is blown in, infrared light / radiation is shot across the sample chamber and is absorbed by the ethanol.

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